I’m sure the engines are Sunbeams and twin boom and I think three engines. so perhaps a Ganymede.

John
Who wasn’t going to get involved.

It is perhaps worthy of note that all the western allies carried tricolor rudder flashes, UK, France, Belgium, Italy and the USA, so there must be a nod to convention somewhere.

John

Further to me posting this I have in my book collection, Owen Thetford’s own copy of Camouflage ’14-’18 Aircraft ( a very slim A5 size volume) and in this he quotes “On Dec 11th 1914 an official order to the effect that all British aeroplanes were to carry Red, White and Blue cockades on the wings with a small Union Jack under the tips. The Union Jacks were dispensed with in early 1915. The tri-colour vertical rudder markings were introduced in May 1915 in the manner of the French.

John

John: maybe they flew to RAF Peterborough itself (also known as Westwood).
The picture can be found at http://www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/blog/?p=3261

Sykes yard was in the centre of town.

Laurence: Was Westwood open then? I do have a history of Westwood but I can’t just put my hands on it at the moment.

John

Snafu: The Horsley was originally ordered as a Bomber with J block serials and the later ones. Mk.II, Mk.III were ordered under a convenient S block of serials probably because they were then primarily torpedo bombers and expected to operate over sea (as in the original concept of the N and S serials). The Mk.I and II Horsley were mainly of wooden construction.

John

A very interesting picture which beggars some questions. S1238 ended it’s service with 100 Sqn and when this Sqn disbanded in 1933 it was at Donibristle Fife. So if this picture is indeed Peterborough, how did they get there? It would hardly be worth the transport costs even by rail unless they had flown down to Wittering.

John

Just trying to sort out why Photobucket is making uploading difficult. I of course agree with AA that Hucknall is a very historic aerodrome. It was opened in WW.1 as a defence of Nottingham and training depot station and it was reopened as the Rolls Royce test airfield and also housed 504 Sqn (County of Nottingham). Local Labour Councillors have been trying for years to stop flying at the ‘drome’. It is one of the few green spaces left ( and one of the few places were there are lots of Skylarks) as the conurbation creeps out.

The very long, hard runway had been blocked about 2/3rds of the length for some years with an RR engine test rig. There is of course a large Golf course adjacent to the field and a former colliery site.

John

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A few photos from Hucknall.

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Is it an Elfe?

John

Swedish Skolfalken. (Mongoose) Open house (if I’m right) as I dropped in unprepared. The same a/c with a Lynx would be the Ovingsfalken

John